Finger Lakes Woodturners will hold our regular January club meeting on Thursday, January 19th. The meeting will be held at our normal meeting location and will begin at 6:00pm with a show and share of members work. A quick business meeting will commence at 6:45pm. Following the business meeting we will have our featured event.
This month will feature a demonstration of turning a 5-inch Hand-held Mirror by Mike Hachey.
This project will give you an opportunity to develop both face grain and spindle turning skills with the added bonus of creating a nice gift item. Please join us at the next meeting to see the project turned from start to finish.
Hope you can all make it!
Finger Lakes Woodturners will hold our regular December club meeting on Thursday, December 15th. The meeting will be held at our normal meeting location and will begin at 6:00pm with a show and share of members work. A quick business meeting will commence at 6:45pm. Following the business meeting we will have our featured event.
This month will feature Hollowing Tools and Techniques using Green Wood by FLWT President, Mark Mazzo.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about what it takes to create hollow-turned vessels, this one is for you. Hollowing is sometimes looked at as too difficult but really it just takes a few tools and some patience and perseverance. Hollow forms can be made in all sizes and a small form is well within everyone’s reach. At the meeting, Mark will show you a selection of tools used to turn, measure and hollow green wood and he will demonstrate the procedure for mounting and hollowing a small vessel starting with a small green log.
Hope you can all make it!
For our November meeting, Finger Lakes Woodturners hosted Malcolm Zander who is known for his exquisite forms and delicate pierced details.
Malcolm did a Friday night lecture on Form and Design in Woodturning and followed that up with a lecture and demonstration on his techniques for thin-walled turning using dry wood on Saturday morning. On Saturday night eight FLWT members tried their hand at applying the techniques that Malcolm taught with their own thin-walled bowls. Turnout for all of the segments from FLWT members as well as members from other area woodturning clubs was great.
For more details and pictures on the event and take a look at our December Newsletter and the associated photo gallery.
FLWT is hosting national turner Malcolm Zander (www.malcolmzander.com) for our November monthly meeting. Mr. Zander is known for his elegant thin-turned forms with delicate piercing details and he will be speaking at a special Friday evening club meeting on November 18th. His talk that evening will be on his work and his thoughts on woodturning design. On Saturday morning November 19th, Malcolm will be demonstrating his techniques for doing thin-walled turning with dry wood – he has some unique techniques for turning thin with dry rather than green wood. On Saturday afternoon, Malcolm will host eight FLWT members to try their hand at what they learned turning a thin-walled vessel.
Our Friday night meeting starts with a show and share at 6:00pm with a short business meeting and Malcolm’s lecture beginning at about 6:30pm. The Saturday morning demonstration of thin-walled turning will be from 9:00am until approximately 11:00am and the Saturday afternoon hands-on workshop will run from 1:00pm until approximately 4:00pm. The Friday meeting is of course free and open to all. The Saturday morning demonstration is also open to all and is only $10. The Saturday afternoon hands-on is open to intermediate turners that attend both Friday night and Saturday morning and is only $30. There will also be a small materials fee for the hands-on session that will be less than $10. The details of the equipment needed for the hands-on session are included in the FLWT October newsletter.
Special Friday Night Meeting: November 18th, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday Demonstration: November 19th, 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Saturday Hands-on Workshop: November 19th, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Friday meeting and the Saturday demonstration and workshop will be held at our normal meeting place:
Isaac Heating and Cooling Training Center
180 Charlotte St
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
| September | Jim Echter – Spindle Turning |
| October | Jerry Sheridan – Embellishing & Ward Donahue – Sharpening System |
| November | Malcolm Zander – National Speaker (Friday night meeting, Saturday morning demo & Saturday afternoon hands-on) see www.malcomzander.com |
| December | Mark Mazzo – Hollowing |
| Winter Party | TBD but likely after the first of the year and not on a meeting night |
| January | Mike Hachey – 5” Hand Held Mirror |
| February | Bruce Trojan – Off Center Platter |
| March | Ed Lehman – Bud Vase or Functional Item |
| April | Andy DiPietro Regional Speaker (Friday night meeting, and Saturday demo) see www.woodartforms.com |
| May | Ralph Mosher & Jeffery Cheramie – Multi-Axis Turning |
